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Illegal command when i try to run SimCity SimCity2000 and all JazzJackrabit 1 games

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First post, by marooned_on_mars

Posted on 2006-01-23, 19:10

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First of all i have searched trough the forum and i hope there aren`t any posts like this.

I am having : DosBox 0.63
I am using : D-Fend v2
I am running on : Windows XP Sp1

When i try to run these 3 games that i have mentioned in the title , no matter how much i try they keep saing : illegal command

I will ad a photo with the problem

Reply 1 of 5, by HunterZ

Posted on 2006-01-23, 19:14

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If you use the dir command instead of trying to run sc2000.exe, what do you see?

Reply 2 of 5, by eL_PuSHeR

Posted on 2006-01-23, 19:18

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Why don't you keep all ms-dos folder names under the 8.3 naming convention? I doubt it will have something to do with your problem but who knows.

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Reply 3 of 5, by Qbix

Posted on 2006-01-23, 19:20

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well dfend sometimes creates different short filenames then dosbox does
Dfend isn't actually too blame or so. It's a known difference between D-Fend and DOSBox.

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Reply 4 of 5, by DosFreak

Posted on 2006-01-23, 19:20

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Don't use long file names for DOS games.

You should have a

\Games
Then
\Games\DOS
Then
\Games\DOS\SC2000

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Reply 5 of 5, by marooned_on_mars

Posted on 2006-01-23, 19:42

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ooooh ... but you are shure quick! 😁. I have tried DosFreak`s suggestion and it worked ... thanks a LOT ! 😉

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